Des poupées et des anges (2008)
Directed by Nora Hamidi

Film Synopsis

Lya lives with her father and two sisters, Chirine and Inès, on a rough housing estate on the outskirts of Paris.  For these North African immigrants, life is hard and the girls' father has to resort to physical violence to impose his idea of good behaviour on his rebellious offspring.  The youngest of the three girls, 7-year-old Inès suffers most.  Lya, 17, refuses to be intimidated and Chirine will no longer have anything to do with her father now that she has turned eighteen.

In the centre of town, Chirine comes into contact with a man, Alex, who offers her well-paid work as a model.  She can hardly believe her good fortune, but when Lya gets to hear of this she realises that her older sister is about to be lured into a life of prostitution.  As Lya manages to patch things up with her father, Chirine learns to take charge of her own life and finds a man, Simon, who offers her a way out of her present precarious existence...